Quotes About Alcohol

When alcohol was legalized again in 1933, the involvement of gangsters and murderers and killing in the alcohol trade virtually ended. Peace was restored to the streets of Chicago. The murder rate fell dramatically,25 and it didn't rise so high again until drug prohibition was intensified in the 1970s and '80s.

When the government war on alcohol stopped, the gangster war for alcohol stopped.

We have run this historical experiment once before, they point out, and we know what one of the effects will be. When alcohol was legalized again in 1933, the involvement of gangsters and murderers and killing in the alcohol trade virtually ended. Peace was restored to the streets of Chicago. The murder rate fell dramatically,25 and it didn't rise so high again until drug prohibition was intensified in the 1970s and '80s. At

Why is alcohol sanctioned and smiled at, while the police crack down constantly on weed—when it seemed to him that the weed smokers cause a lot less trouble than the drinkers?

people will never choose to bring drugs into the legal realm of regulation so long as they believe they are demonic substances that hijack most of their users and destroy them. When they discover that these drugs are in fact less dangerous than alcohol, and addiction is caused mainly by trauma and isolation rather than the drug itself, they will be more receptive to new approaches.

Ich sag euch, ich hab schon so viel Malheur g'habt, und allzeit durch meine Räusch. Wann ich mir meinen Verdruß nit versaufet, ich müßt mich grad aus Verzweiflung dem Trunk ergeben.

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.

There is nothing sadder than a drunk in the rain wishing you well.

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.

The driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry.

Drive hammered, get slammered.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Buzzed driving is drunk driving.

A designated driver helps you party another day.

How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?

Drink and drive, the police will show you some new bars.

O médico lembrou-se de uma frase de Scott Fitzgerald, tripulante aflito do barco em que seguiam, deixado em terra numa viagem anterior, de coração exausto alimentado pelo oxigénio amargo do álcool: na noite mais escura da alma são sempre três horas da manhã.

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.